Raven-Symone Quotes

I'm a bit of a goofball; I don't have a lot of censors and I don't have a lot boundaries and I'm trying to remember that the world is watching.

I've had my moments of insanity. But there is a certain responsibility to set proper examples for your children, and that influences your choices in every aspect of your life.

I tend to keep the press at a distance, you know, and I don't really react to what they say. I react to what I feel more.

I am so conscious of my image because I have a daughter and have said no to offers for item numbers down South.

Once you get a reputation for emotional volatility, it can take years of model behavior to change how others see you.

I'm a guy desperately in need of buffers. I have big feelings, big reactions, big emotions. All the things that serve me as an artist, but challenge me as a socially-responsible human being.

Obviously, I've seen what the press has done to my cousins. I would never let that rule my life, but I'm not the kind of person to rebel or do things. I don't know. I don't let the potential for bad press dictate who I am, but I keep that in mind. How can you not?

Parents should be the most important examples for their children.

You can't be responsible for the way people respond to you. You're only responsible for yourself.

Children learn much more from how you act than from what you tell them. There are times this worries me - we parents are rarely the role models we want to be. True for life. True for driving.

I couldn't stand people writing about me the way I write about politicians.

Kids are great imitators. Give them something great to imitate.

We are responsible for what we do, and also for the influence of our example.

This year, or this month, or, more likely, this very day, we have failed to practice ourselves the kind of behavior we expect from other people.

We are all hypocrites but introspective people use this insight to moderate their self-righteousness. There’s an inverse relationship between introspection and intolerance.

It has become an accepted tenet that kids will rarely listen to their parents but seldom fail to imitate them. Communicating the message has never been a good substitute for 'showing up' and embodying the message.

I refrain from blaming anything on my parents.

With every word we utter, with every action we take, we know our kids are watching us. We as parents are their most important role models.

Kids are watching us. I experience it every single day. They hang on my every word, what I wear, what I say.

I'm constantly having to check my conscience about what I'm writing and the responsibility of what I'm saying.

Kids are the ultimate form of motivation. They're watching. They're mimicking. They're an extension of you. So you have to win.

Everyone assumes I practise all of my own laws but I don't. I think anybody who did would be a horrible ugly person to be around.

Human creatures, living in the circle of their intimates and friends, are too apt to remain in ignorance of the comments and instructions which may be made of what they say and do in the world at large. I entertain a great horror of this ignorance.

What I continue to learn as a parent is to be mindful of the fact that I am responsible for being the parent that my children need me to be and not necessarily the parent I want to be.

It doesn't change the way I am, but I do totally understand how you're looked at as a footballer, especially by children. I don't claim I can shape their lives, but there's no harm in having good manners and being seen to play the game properly.